Improving Health Resources

What health promotion and disease prevention tools work with Indian communities in California?

CTEC is building capacity to produce and share culturally adapted Tool Kits for use by California Tribal Health Programs and their communities.

What are the greatest health needs of the Indian communities of California and are they changing over time?

CTEC has developed the capacity to collect and analyze existing health data bases to determine the health and health status of AIAN in Indian communities in California  by developing a collaborative with the California Area Office of the Indian Health Service, the California Center for Health Statistics, and the University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Tool Kits                                 

Data Systems

What do Indian communities in California want and need in terms of health promotion, disease prevention and health emergency preparedness?

 

CTEC is building capacity to design and conduct both in-person interview and other types of surveys with Indian communities in California.

 

· Survey of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strengths and Needs of Tribal Health Programs.  In 2007 CTEC conducted a survey of all Tribal Health Programs in California to better understand the efforts they were already making in health promotion and disease prevention and could offer expertise to CTEC, as well as the areas in which they could develop new efforts in collaboration with CTEC.  Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this survey was done in collaboration with Northwest Tribal EpiCenter and the Southwest Plains Inter-Tribal EpiCenter.

· Survey of Adult AIAN in California for their tobacco use and cessation efforts.  CTEC generated the population information needed for the California Native Tobacco Survey sample designed by epidemiologist Deborah Morton PhD of the University of California San Diego.

Surveys

CTEC is building the capacity to design and conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of health promotion, disease prevention and health emergency preparedness.

· Evaluation of the Tobacco Education and Prevention Technical Support (TEPTS) project of the Family and Community Health Department funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being redesigned and conducted by CTEC.

Evaluation

Developing useful tools that respect cultural values and traditions of the Indian communities.

 

Last updated 10/9/2007